[INDOLOGY] OCR

[Tyler Neill]

Hi all,

Regarding Patrick’s question about easy OCR, I suspect he’s particularly
looking for a tool that can handle multi-page PDFs in one go, which could
be especially helpful for digitization projects like UTA’s Resource Library
for Dharmaśāstra Studies
<https://sites.utexas.edu/sanskrit/resources/dharmasastra/>.

If Patrick or anyone else is interested, feel free to reach out to me
directly. I’m looking for a few volunteers to test a new drag-and-drop
interface I’m building to streamline access to Google Vision OCR, which is
currently best in class and handles multi-page inputs well.

Kind regards,
Tyler

On Sat, May 10, 2025 at 8:00 AM <indology-request at list.indology.info> wrote:

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Patrick Olivelle <jpo at austin.utexas.edu>
> To: Indology <indology at list.indology.info>
> Cc:
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> Date: Fri, 9 May 2025 22:07:05 +0000
> Subject: [INDOLOGY] OCR
> Dear Friends:
>
> I am wondering whether with the advance of AI technology we have easy OCR
> software to read Devanāgarī, easy enough to be used by someone like me!! We
> have the one prepared by Andrew Ollett, which he generously gave us. But
> that requires computer knowledge far beyond my reach. Is there on where you
> can just drop the Devanāgari scan, out pops a searchable file. This is
> probably a long shot, but I thought I would ask.
>
> With thanks and best wishes,
>
> Patrick Olivelle
>
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